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A CATALOGUE OF
No. 35
Sang-de-boeuf Bottle ("Lang-yao"), with globular body and cylindrical
neck: white paste of characteristic texture, covered with fine light-
red monochrome glaze, which is sustained with exceptional brilliancy
throughout.
The light pellucid sang-de-boeuf glaze is shown with ruby-like clearness, and with
slight changes or mottling in its translucent color; beginning from the upper neck, where
the edge is defined by a narrow rim of the soft white body-color, it ends at the foot,
marked by a few delicate flecks or vertical streakings along the neck and some variation
Ainto lighter shades that distinguishes it and its class. feature, also, is the well-defined
white margin at the base, where great technical perfection is shown in the ending of the
liquescent red glcize with much precision.
The foot of this example has a clean biscuit edge underneath a cream, or "rice-tinted,"
crackle glaze, the interior of neck showing a similar crackle glaze and also bearing a
splashing of the exterior ruby tint.
Made during the prefecture of Lang-ting-so, under the Emperor K'ang-hsi (1662-
1722).
Height, 13 inches.
Diameter, 8 '^ inches.
From the Startseff Collection, Tientsin.
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